linux-kernel - [PATCH v9 14/14] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Set MEV bit in nested STE for DoS mitigations

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Message-ID: <8ed12feef67fc65273d0f5925f401a81f56acebe.1741719725.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:44:32 -0700
From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>
To: <jgg@...dia.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v9 14/14] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Set MEV bit in nested STE for DoS mitigations

There is a DoS concern on the shared hardware event queue among devices
passed through to VMs, that too many translation failures that belong to
VMs could overflow the shared hardware event queue if those VMs or their
VMMs don't handle/recover the devices properly.

The MEV bit in the STE allows to configure the SMMU HW to merge similar
event records, though there is no guarantee. Set it in a nested STE for
DoS mitigations.

In the future, we might want to enable the MEV for non-nested cases too
such as domain->type == IOMMU_DOMAIN_UNMANAGED or even IOMMU_DOMAIN_DMA.

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>
---
 drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h         | 1 +
 drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd.c | 2 ++
 drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c         | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h
index df06076a1698..dd1ad56ce863 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h
+++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ static inline u32 arm_smmu_strtab_l2_idx(u32 sid)
 #define STRTAB_STE_1_S1COR		GENMASK_ULL(5, 4)
 #define STRTAB_STE_1_S1CSH		GENMASK_ULL(7, 6)
 
+#define STRTAB_STE_1_MEV		(1UL << 19)
 #define STRTAB_STE_1_S2FWB		(1UL << 25)
 #define STRTAB_STE_1_S1STALLD		(1UL << 27)
 
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd.c
index 65adfed56969..e4fd8d522af8 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd.c
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ static void arm_smmu_make_nested_cd_table_ste(
 	target->data[0] |= nested_domain->ste[0] &
 			   ~cpu_to_le64(STRTAB_STE_0_CFG);
 	target->data[1] |= nested_domain->ste[1];
+	/* Merge events for DoS mitigations on eventq */
+	target->data[1] |= cpu_to_le64(STRTAB_STE_1_MEV);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
index 5fa817a8f5f1..b4c21aaed126 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ void arm_smmu_get_ste_used(const __le64 *ent, __le64 *used_bits)
 			cpu_to_le64(STRTAB_STE_1_S1DSS | STRTAB_STE_1_S1CIR |
 				    STRTAB_STE_1_S1COR | STRTAB_STE_1_S1CSH |
 				    STRTAB_STE_1_S1STALLD | STRTAB_STE_1_STRW |
-				    STRTAB_STE_1_EATS);
+				    STRTAB_STE_1_EATS | STRTAB_STE_1_MEV);
 		used_bits[2] |= cpu_to_le64(STRTAB_STE_2_S2VMID);
 
 		/*
@@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ void arm_smmu_get_ste_used(const __le64 *ent, __le64 *used_bits)
 	if (cfg & BIT(1)) {
 		used_bits[1] |=
 			cpu_to_le64(STRTAB_STE_1_S2FWB | STRTAB_STE_1_EATS |
-				    STRTAB_STE_1_SHCFG);
+				    STRTAB_STE_1_SHCFG | STRTAB_STE_1_MEV);
 		used_bits[2] |=
 			cpu_to_le64(STRTAB_STE_2_S2VMID | STRTAB_STE_2_VTCR |
 				    STRTAB_STE_2_S2AA64 | STRTAB_STE_2_S2ENDI |
-- 
2.43.0